I can’t advocate buying a ticket for a movie you can’t go see … but I’m not going to stop you.

If I recall correctly, it was stated on The Show that ALBL needed to hit $6500 per screen for Echo Park to approve it for national distribution. The only pictures to hit numbers anything like that are The U.S. Vs. John Lennon ($12K ea. on 6 screens) and Keeping Mum (I don’t even know what that is. $15K on 2 screens). The official weekend number, based on projections and according to BOM, is $1951.

After those “art pictures” the highest grossing film per screen this weekend is the film-geek/L.A.-geek porn The Black Dahlia pulling in $4654 per screen. In short, the mark for ALBL to go national was not merely optimistic, but absurdly so.

… but it should do very well “On Demand” and the DVD will kill come Christmas. You need a quick gift for the Stern fan in your life? Get him a Beer League. I suspect some of us will have several DVDs come January.